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| The '''Slipspace core''', also known as the '''Source Crystal''' or the '''Mother Crystal''',<ref name="renegades">''Halo: Renegades'', p. 208-209</ref> was a large, quantum-engineered crystal created by the [[Precursor]]s{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=319}} and later used by the [[Forerunners]] to create [[slipspace]] [[Slipspace drive|drives]] for their ships. Pieces were chipped off from the core crystal, transported to manufacturing facilities all across the [[ecumene]] and then cut into smaller [[Slipspace flake|flakes]] for use in new slipspace drives from the smallest craft to the largest.{{Ref/Reuse|renegades}} The exotic composition and slipspace interactions of the crystal were incomprehensible to even the Forerunners, and never replicated.<ref>''Halo: Warfleet'', p. 11</ref> Befitting its importance, the crystal was stored on Maethrillian,{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} the ecumene Capital and its location was one of the best-kept secrets in the ecumene. The Miners collaborated with the Builders in attempts to grow new slipspace cores from the flakes cut from this core.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} It was said that only the [[Master Builder]] knew the location of the core.<ref>''Halo: Cryptum'', p. 124</ref> [[343 Guilty Spark]] stated that only the cutters knew and they would have rather died than reveal its location.{{Ref/Reuse|renegades}} | | {{Ratings}} |
| | The '''Slipspace core''' was a crystal used by the [[Forerunners]] to create [[slipspace]] [[Slipspace drive|drives]] for their ships. When a new drive was needed, a [[Forerunner crystal|flake]] was chipped off from the original crystal and used as the base of the drive. It was said that only the [[Master Builder]] knew the location of the core.<ref>'''[[Halo: Cryptum]]''', ''page 124''</ref> |
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| In [[2557]], Guilty Spark took the [[salvager]] vessel ''[[Ace of Spades]]'' to the Forerunner world of [[Triniel]] to acquire a flake of the crystal to help upgrade the ship's systems. The crystals were so dangerous that Spark could not allow them to be salvaged nor could the [[human]]s touch them.{{Ref/Reuse|renegades}}
| | The crystal found by [[Catherine Elizabeth Halsey|Dr. Halsey]] on [[Reach]] was likely a fragment of this core. |
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==List of appearances== |
| *''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'' {{1st}} | | *''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'' {{1st}} |
| *''[[Halo: Renegades]]'' {{Mo}}
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| ==Sources== | | ==Sources== |
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| [[Category:Forerunner technology]] | | [[Category:Forerunner technology]] |
